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Rating: 
Summary: Great Whodunnit
Review: "MURDER AT PINE BEACH" by Aaron B. Larson (Crime Fiction/Mystery)
Trade Paperback $19.95 (ISBN#1-59286-589-5)
Publisher: Publish America, LLLP
Baltimore
www.PublishAmerica.com This is a "Whodunnit" mystery.
I was very drawn into the location and I was made to understand the feelings of despair, fear and mystery by the flow in which Mr. Larson tells this tale.
Trapped in a country lodge with a raging blizzard outside, with several guests and most of his co-workers, with bodies mounting, with suspicions of everybody else, is the powerful description of the atmosphere inside the lodge is the setting for this mystery.
The story unfolds as night porter Patrick Scott is making rounds and discovers a dead body. His horror develops as he realizes that he had known and had worked with the woman. So who can he trust? Is the killer one of the other workers at the lodge? Or is it one of the guests? Or is it someone they don't even know?
As the night progresses, the winter storm envelopes the lodge and there is no way out. The suspects mount and are eliminated as more bodies are found.
Each body has a poem left in the area, as the killer makes reference to the job that each performed. You see all the victims are workers/managers/owners of the lodge.
This book is a well-told mastery of intrigue. I wholeheartedly recommend this book for the mystery reader. Enjoy! Ginger Johnson, Editor
DETECTIVE MYSTERY STORIES
Rating:
Summary: Great Whodunnit
Review: "MURDER AT PINE BEACH" by Aaron B. Larson (Crime Fiction/Mystery)
Trade Paperback $19.95 (ISBN#1-59286-589-5)
Publisher: Publish America, LLLP
Baltimore
www.PublishAmerica.com This is a "Whodunnit" mystery.
I was very drawn into the location and I was made to understand the feelings of despair, fear and mystery by the flow in which Mr. Larson tells this tale.
Trapped in a country lodge with a raging blizzard outside, with several guests and most of his co-workers, with bodies mounting, with suspicions of everybody else, is the powerful description of the atmosphere inside the lodge is the setting for this mystery.
The story unfolds as night porter Patrick Scott is making rounds and discovers a dead body. His horror develops as he realizes that he had known and had worked with the woman. So who can he trust? Is the killer one of the other workers at the lodge? Or is it one of the guests? Or is it someone they don't even know?
As the night progresses, the winter storm envelopes the lodge and there is no way out. The suspects mount and are eliminated as more bodies are found.
Each body has a poem left in the area, as the killer makes reference to the job that each performed. You see all the victims are workers/managers/owners of the lodge.
This book is a well-told mastery of intrigue. I wholeheartedly recommend this book for the mystery reader. Enjoy! Ginger Johnson, Editor
DETECTIVE MYSTERY STORIES
Rating:
Summary: Murderously Delightful!
Review: A great page-turner that keeps you wondering all the way through! You could describe it as a mystery that combines the suspenseful setting of Agatha Christie's TEN LITTLE INDIANS with the small town sensibilities of Kathleen Taylor's mystery novels. Everyone has had coworkers that deserve an untimely demise, and this novel 'dispenses' with all types. MURDER AT PINE BEACH runs in a different vein from Larson's excellent WEIRD WESTERN ADVENTURES OF HAAKON JONES, demonstrating his skill and flexibility. Both books will keep the reader entranced for hours!
Rating:
Summary: Murderously Delightful!
Review: A great page-turner that keeps you wondering all the way through! You could describe it as a mystery that combines the suspenseful setting of Agatha Christie's TEN LITTLE INDIANS with the small town sensibilities of Kathleen Taylor's mystery novels. Everyone has had coworkers that deserve an untimely demise, and this novel 'dispenses' with all types. MURDER AT PINE BEACH runs in a different vein from Larson's excellent WEIRD WESTERN ADVENTURES OF HAAKON JONES, demonstrating his skill and flexibility. Both books will keep the reader entranced for hours!
Rating: 
Summary: A murderously great "read"!
Review: Take a swanky South Dakota resort, a resort plagued by construction and finance problems. Add some disgruntled employees - a few of them willing to climb over the bodies of their rivals in order to move up in the corporation pyramid, that is if they themselves survive this deadly holiday season. Toss in the possibility of embezzlement and some scandalous love affairs. Then blow in a howling December snowstorm that cuts off communications and closes the only road in... the only escape route out. A blizzard that imprisons the resort employees and a few unlucky guests that stopped for the night.
A killer is loose within the resort and Pat Scott, the night porter, along with his friend, Don Roscoe, the night auditor, must figure out who has it in for everyone and why before another body turns up dead. Corpses and clues keep the pages turning as the icy hand of death stalks the corridors. A traditional mystery in the classic sense.
Rating:
Summary: First rate mystery
Review: Trapped in a South Dakota resort during a December blizzard, two unlikely sleuths discover their co-workers are being murdered. Since the phones are out and the sheriff can't get to them, the night auditor and porter are forced to solve the mystery on their own--while hoping the killer doesn't get to them first.
Rating:
Summary: First rate mystery
Review: Trapped in a South Dakota resort during a December blizzard, two unlikely sleuths discover their co-workers are being murdered. Since the phones are out and the sheriff can't get to them, the night auditor and porter are forced to solve the mystery on their own--while hoping the killer doesn't get to them first.
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